BRAGADAYJAH331
Prohibition Against Eating of Blood
“And whatsoever man there is of the house of Israel,
or of the stranger that sojourn among you who eats any manner of blood, I will
surely set my face against that person that eats blood, and cut him off from
among his people.”
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls; for it is
the blood that makes an atonement for your soul.”
The Lord God went to great lengths to emphasize and
explain His absolute prohibition against the eating of blood.
For He says, “it is the life of all flesh, and the
blood of it is for the life thereof; therefore I have said to the children of
Israel, you shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh for the life of the flesh
is the blood thereof and whosoever eats it shall be cut off.”
God is being very specific about His people not eating
blood. We may understand why when we understand in a broader sense the
significance of the life and the blood. For example, that the value of the life
is the equivalent of the value of the blood. Therefore, this applies to the
blood of Christ its inconceivable value, for it was shed by a sinless God/Man to
save man.
God also explained that the blood was allowed to be
used on the altar as a mark of the atonement and every such offering was an
execution of the sentence of the law upon a substitute for the offender, and
pointed to the substitutionary death of Christ whose blood alone vindicated the
righteous judgment of God. For as the song-writer penned, “There was no other
good enough to pay the price of sin; He only could unlock the gate of heaven
and lest us in.” More
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